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My hosts were always calm and kind in putting up with the odd foreigner who was bound to find larger signals gross and yet to miss nuances altogether, coming across as deaf, dumb, and functionally illiterate.
Comparable long term retention of apical spiral sensory neurons was described for the deaf white cat [ 25 ] and may also be the case in humans with congenital deafness.
Similar data are also needed for other congenitally deaf children [ 36 ] and in the deaf white cat [ 25 ] . Further work on the recently available mutant mice with specific absence of all hair cells [ 37 ] , outer hair cells in the base [ 38 ] or apex [ 39 ] could further help to clarify the role of hair cells in forming and maintaining afferent and efferent innervation in these model mice.
Assorted police goons--among them the dependable heavy Frank Vincent and the blue-eyed, blankly malevolent Robert Patrick, the lethal shape-shifter of Terminator 2: Judgment Day --let the sheriff know he'd better turn his deaf ear on Ray's chicanery.
To quote the author, "Many of them are deaf, and all of them are dumb.